Support for the Next Generation

The Kawasaki Group supports the next generation who lead the future technology.

Online Education Events

The Kawasaki Group participated in “Career Challenge Day On-Line-Meets,” an online career education and training event for junior high school students. At the event, we introduced Kawasaki Group initiatives that address the SDGs through solutions to social issues, while also introducing the actual work tasks of company employees and work-life balance. We will continue to actively offer online classes as an alternative to in-person work experience and participate in events as part of our social contribution activities in the post COVID-19 era.

Handicraft and Experiment Courses

We believe that nurturing the engineers who will support the foundations of technology in the future and ensuring the succession of manufacturing skills is an important social issue for the Kawasaki Group, which conducts manufacturing using advanced technological capabilities. It is said, however, that there is a tendency for children in Japan to turn away from the sciences, and there are concerns about the future of manufacturing. To address this issue, the Group conducts experiment-based crafts workshops in various regions using original programs based on the Group’s products to raise interest in science and manufacturing among children and contribute to the advancement of next-generation technology.

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The Group, working in collaboration with Leave a Nest Co., Ltd., developed original programs to support the development of next generation.

Young employees from each internal company participated in the development of the original programs, devising ways for children to have fun while gaining science knowledge related to our products.

The Future Creation Division’s Miraihon Project

* "Mirai" in Miraihon means "future" in Japanese.

Early career engineers from diverse departments including research & development, aerospace, ship & offshore, rolling stock, and hydrogen, which engage with the world’s most advanced technologies, play a central role in providing opportunities to experience authentic technologies to the next generation. The engineers are also pivotal to the planning of projects to address complex and involving challenges which allow the next generation to acquire the practical skills to deal with these challenges when they encounter them in society itself. Through these activities, we hope to induce in participants the “capacity to think and learn at their own initiative,” which will be essential to future society. To date, we have hosted learning events on hydrogen energy and programs for high school students co-created with universities and various companies, among other initiatives. Such next-generation educational programs will be conducted in the future so that the baton of technology can be passed on to the next generation.

“Ocean’s 17 Event,” learning program to develop maritime personnel in Kobe

Source of reference：Kobe City Website(Japanese language only)

Kawasaki Good Times World

To allow as many people as possible to experience the wonders of technology and the importance of craftsmanship and to deepen communication with members of the community, we opened Kawasaki Good Times World in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2006. This facility introduces our history of over 120 years and representative products for the land, sea, and air that have contributed to the development of society with our leading-edge technologies.

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Kawasaki Robostage

In 2016, we opened the robot showroom Kawasaki Robostage in Odaiba, Tokyo so that visitors can watch, touch and experience Kawasaki's state-of-the-art robotics technologies and knowledge. Setting a main concept of human-robot coexistence and collaboration, the facility continues to display the latest robots. Kawasaki Robostage also hosts the “Become a Kawasaki Robot Engineer!” event for children to learn more about industrial robots and to think about “a society where people and robots coexist.”

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